Social Media on the US Forensic Sci Commission raises public concerns about a failed “science” in its mist.

Folks in the public sector who have been following the machinations of the bitemark “board” belonging to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences have been disappointed with the makeup and ingrained status quo culture of most members of the NIST Forensic Sciences Commission re: Odontology. One journalist in particular at the Washington Post is a veteran of writing about the host of forensic misidentifications and failures that members of the ABFO have perped on the general public with tragic results for innocent people. Lets say that the exoneration cases of Ray Krone, Willie Jackson, Kennedy Brewer, Levon Brooks, Robert Lee Stinson, Gerald Richardson, Bennie Starks, (all black except Krone) and others still in prison weigh heavily on their optimism.  Odds are good that the majority of the Odontology Study Group will do nothing more than pad their own pockets and profess their lies about what they consider “science.” This is much like whats happened for years with the AAFS’s FSAB “certify the certifiers” committee. These guys can’t even yet agree on how to do proficiency testing of their “non-science.” Ray Krone’s supporters aptly summed up the mantra of ABFO’s validity while Ray was on AZ Death Row.

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Here’s a few recent comments from Radley Balko (he did 6 tweets on this subject).

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This one just lays thing out rather explicitly.

3. If this is what the White House commitment to forensics reform will look like, then there’s really no commitment to reform at all.

Plus a few more……………………………………..

  1.  That’s really creepy and weird.

  2.  “Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced”.

  3.  So no double blind test that they all score 100% on huh?

  4.  George Stigler called it…

 

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Dr. Michael Bowers is a long time forensic consultant in the US and international court systems.
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